9:00-9:20 - Introduction / Session organizers
9:20-9:40 - Technological organization and residential behavior among early Homo sapiens in North Africa: The Aterian occupation of Bizmoune Cave, Morocco / Youssef Djellal, Asmaa Ziati, Othman Echcherif-Baamrani; Ismail Ziani, Fatima-Zohra Rafi, Philippe Fernandez, Steven Kuhn, João Marreiros
9:40-10:00 - Insights about prehistoric territory: a geoarchaeological study of MSA lithic resource exploitation & mobility patterns at Bizmoune cave, Essaouira, Morocco / Fatima-Zohra Rafi, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, M. Mouhiddine
10:00-10:20 - L’Expérience de la mise en place d’une nouvelle plateforme de biologie moléculaire ouverte au service de l’Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine au Maroc / Hicham el Ossmani, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar
10:20-10:40 - Entre matière et symbolisme: Une approche expérimentale et fonctionnelle des matières colorantes de la grotte de Bizmoune (Maroc) au Middle Stone Age / Fatima Zahra, Abdeljali Bouzouggar
10:40-11:00 - Plant Biomarker and Stable Isotope Records of Vegetation Change and Trans-Sahara Ecological Connectivity at Bizmoune Cave, Morocco / Kayla B. Worthey, Kevin Uno, Steven Kuhn, Philippe Fernandez, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar
11:00-11:30 - Coffee break
11:30-11:50 - The Middle Stone Age site of Jorf el Hamam (Essaouira, Morocco) / Amy E. Clark, Philippe Fernandez, Susan Mentzer, Matthew Pailes, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Sabah Boula, Aya Mraiti and Abdeljalil Bouzouggar
11:50-12:10 - Ancient landscapes exploitation and modern lessons: a view from Moroccan archaeological sites / Abdeljali Bouzouggar, Louise Humphrey, Nick Barton, Ismail Ziani, Jacob Morales
12:10-12:30 - Final debate
Posters:
1. Analysis of Gabriel Camps’s Theory of Neolithization in North Africa / Aya Mraiti, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Matthew C. Pailes
2. Human Occupation and Cultural Dynamics at Guenfouda Cave (Eastern Morocco): Evidence from the Middle Paleolithic to the Neolithic / Mourad Farkouch, Hassan Aouraghe, Hicham Mhamdi, Mohamed Souhir
3. Technological and cognitive variability among Aterian populations: an interdisciplinary study of elongated blanks from the Middle Stone Age in Morocco / Othman Echcherif-Baamrani, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar
4. Contribution to the initial LSA in Northwest Africa: A case study from Taforalt, Rhafas and Bizmoune Caves, Morocco / Asmaa Ziati, Abdeljali Bouzouggar / Amy E. Clark, Philippe Fernandez, Susan Mentzer, Matthew Pailes, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Sabah Boula, Aya Mraiti, and Abdeljalil Bouzouggar
5. Enamel Growth and Early-Life Stress in Neolithic Morocco: A Histological Study of First Molars from El Kiffen and Rouazi-Skhirat / Meryem Benerradi, Patrick Mahoney, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Louise Humphrey
6. Archaeogenetic Study of Prehistoric Canids in Morocco: New Perspectives Through Ancient DNA and Stable Isotopes / Kawtar El Mohippe, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar
7. Tracing the LSA-Neolithic Transition in Morocco: An Archaeogenetic Approach Across Unde rrepresented Regions / Ismael Toumi, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar